Environment

“Don’t Send these Climate Denying Poll-Cats back to Congress: Send them back to Science Class” – Jesse Ventura

Jesse Ventura “Off The Grid” “Don’t send these Poll-cats back to Congress. Send them back to science class!” Today, Jesse Ventura runs down three of the top Washington republicans, who are screwing up our planet with their anti-science views. Who will make the list? Watch #OffTheGrid today to find out! Got a question for the […]

Coal

Cold as Hell: North Dakota Burns up the World with Fracked Oil

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By Laura Gottesdiener via Tomdispatch At 9 p.m. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a cocktail waitress at Whispers, one of the two strip clubs in downtown Williston, I didn’t expect a 25-year-old man to get beaten to death outside the joint. Then again, I didn’t really expect most […]

Energy

Top 5 Ways Lower oil Prices Could Change the World

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole Brent Crude has fallen to $90 a barrel as China’s and Asia’s slowing economic growth has reduced oil demand and production remains high. All this despite the subtraction of Libyan and Syrian oil from the market and the big reduction, via sanctions, in Iran’s exports. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are pumping more […]

Climate Change

Israeli firm looks to keep solar power generators running at night

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Reuters Plus: “Israeli firm Brenmiller Energy aims to solve the conundrum of producing solar power at night with a new energy storage system that it says is an alternative to other solar technologies and will help provide clean electricity at a competitive price. Jim Drury reports.” Reuters Plus: “Israeli firm looks to keep solar power […]

Climate Change

Walmart Plots to derail Rooftop Solar Energy Revolution

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By Deirdre Fulton via Commondreams.org The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding the nation’s transition to a clean energy future, a new study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) finds. “The Waltons claim to have a deep commitment to sustainability, but […]

Climate Change

Divestment and Popular Politics: Big Oil and Israeli Occupation

Juan Cole

By Jen Marlowe On September 21 (one day before world leaders converged on New York for the United Nations Climate Summit, and one day after up to 400,000 people took to the streets of NYC for the People’s Climate March), the president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund made an announcement: the Fund would be divesting […]

Climate Change

Beyond Antarctica: 3-Foot Sea Level Rise from Melting Alaskan, Other Glaciers Alone

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NSF: “Tighten your seat belt! This runway is made of ice. Welcome to the Ruth Glacier, deep inside Alaska’s Denali National Park. Many of the visitors are here for backcountry skiing, but this is no vacation for University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz and his team. For them, time on the ice is all part […]

Climate Change

35,000 Walruses Can’t be Wrong about Climate Change: Crowd beach b/c “extreme retreat of sea ice”

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ODN/ ITN “Photographed on Saturday, images were taken of at least 35,000 walruses who beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline. The huge gathering was spotted during the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual arctic marine mammal survey. And according to experts, the phenomenon is being blamed on the melting of arctic ice due to […]